All That Jazz (1979)

• Year: 1979
• Released: 20 Dec 1979
• Country: United States
• Adwords: Won 4 Oscars. 11 wins & 14 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078754/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/all_that_jazz
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/all-that-jazz
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Spanish
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
• Runtime: 123 min
• Writer: Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse
• Director: Bob Fosse
• Cast: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking
• Keywords: divorce, movie business, film in film, broadway, surgery,

	7.8/10
	72/100
	87% – Critics
	85% – Audience

All That Jazz Storyline

Joe Gideon is a Broadway director, choreographer and filmmaker, he in the process of casting the chorus and staging the dance numbers for his latest Broadway show, starring his ex-wife Audrey Paris in what is largely a vanity project for her in playing a role several years younger than her real age, and editing a film he directed on the life of stand-up comic Davis Newman. Joe’s professional and personal lives are intertwined, he a chronic philanderer, having slept with and had relationships with a series of dancers in his shows, Victoria Porter, who he hired for the current show despite she not being the best dancer, in the former category, and Kate Jagger, his current girlfriend, in the latter category. That philandering has led to relationship problems, with Audrey during their marriage, and potentially now with Kate who wants a committed relationship with Joe largely in not wanting the alternative of entering the dating world again. Joe also lives a hard and fast life, he chain smoking, drinking heavily, listening to hard driving classical music and popping uppers to keep going. In addition to pressures from investors and meeting film deadlines above and beyond his own self-induced hard life, he is teetering on the brink physically and emotionally. With Kate, Audrey, and his and Audrey’s teenage daughter Michelle looking over him as best they can, Joe flirts with “Angelique” in the process, he potentially succumbing to her if he doesn’t listen to them or what his body is telling him.

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While it’s VERY hard to care about the main character, the film is one of a kind!

This film is about an EXTREMELY manic Broadway producer (Roy Scheider) who burns the candle at both ends–pushing himself in such an extreme and unhealthy way that eventually he has a heart attack in the midst of a production. Will he survive? Well, while waiting to find out, the film takes an amazing turn. Up until the heart attack, it’s a SOMEWHAT conventional film about the making of a play. BUT, after the attack, it suddenly becomes VERY surreal–with many song and dance numbers that explore death! In this sense, the film really is a lot like Fellini’s “8 1/2”–but with song and dance numbers! I could say more…but don’t want to spoil what happens next. Just hold on…the final scene is one of the most amazingly stunning in film history!!

“All That Jazz” is one of those rare films that I didn’t particularly enjoy BUT I really respected what it tried to do. While it is similar, in some ways, to a few other films (such as “42nd Street”), the total package is wholly unique–and for that reason alone it deserves to be seen. But, I am warning you, it’s very possible you won’t like a lot of the film because the leading man is pretty awful–drinking to excess, using drugs to excess, using women to excess–heck, doing EVERYTHING to excess! Interestingly, the film’s director, Bob Fosse, intended this as a sort of autobiography–so I assume Fosse was a very talented but incredibly screwed up man…AND, he welcomed the world to see this!! This was either a case of incredible narcissism or perhaps a cry for help or understanding–I have no idea which the case might be! I mentioned how “All That Jazz” is a lot like “42nd Street”. This is because in “42nd Street” (the film), Warner Baxter is in many ways the manic Broadway producer that Scheider is in “All That Jazz”–and, in the end, he burns himself out and dies–all for the sake of the show. As far as “8 1/2” goes, it’s much more likely you’ve seen that and it’s a very strange film that explores a film director whose life is VERY hectic and he retreats into fantasy and day dreams to cope with his out of control life. All these films are well worth seeing and would make a great triple-feature.

By the way, less than a decade after “All That Jazz”, Fosse really DID die of a heart attack at age 60. Talk about art imitating life!! NOTE: This film has many adult themes, language and nudity. Think twice before showing this to your mother or kids.

Wonderful, one of Bob Fosse’s best films

The script is a bit of a jumble at times, with the odd groaner particularly with Wallace Shawn’s one line(the worst line of the film and Shawn is wasted) and Schneider and Lange’s chemistry comes across as a little wooden. But everything else about All That Jazz is so great, it is one of the better 1970s musicals and one of the most unique ones you’ll see anywhere along with Ken Russell’s The Boy Friend. All That Jazz looks spectacular, the editing, costumes and art direction all won Oscars that were richly deserved. The editing and cinematography is some of the most imaginative of any musical, the costumes are rich in colour and the art direction is wonderfully opulent. The score also won an Oscar which was also deserved, it captures all the glitz and glamour of musical theatre brilliantly with no over-sentimentalising. The songs are ones that you will have no trouble remembering, Take Off With Us being the highlight. And they are superbly staged and imaginatively shot with choreography that is unlike what you’ve seen before and since, plus it is very rhythmically driven(again the very erotic Take Off With Us is the standout, though Everything Old is New Again is very sweet). The reality parts of the story blend surprisingly well with the more fantasy-like ones, the reality stuff is often hard-hitting and unpleasant but very real like Joe Gideon himself while the fantasy has a real surrealism to it. Fosse’s direction is truly impressive, yes some scenes like the death sequence is a touch self-indulgent but there is his usual pizazz and rhythmic precision while also very Fellini-esque, reminding one somewhat of 8 1/2. Roy Schneider gives a blistering career-best performance as a very sordid character with a good amount of complexity. Jessica Lange is alluring, Leland Palmer is equally solid and Ann Reinking is equally charming. The director-daughter relationship is touchingly done. Overall, a wonderful, if somewhat divisive, musical and one of Fosse’s best alongside Cabaret. 9/10 Bethany Cox

it’s his life

Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is a Broadway director on top of the world. He’s got his own project. He’s directing a side vanity project for his ex-wife Audrey Paris. He’s directing the biographical movie of stand-up comic Davis Newman. He’s a lifelong womanizer and it’s a struggle with current girlfriend Kate Jagger who just wants him. He tries to be a good father. He’s addicted to Dexy. He’s burning the candle on all ends. As a teen, he performed in a strip club where his burlesque mother performed. Throughout the movie, he is talking to the Angel of Death, Angelique (Jessica Lange).

This is Bob Fosse. It’s a thinly disguised autobiography of his own life. As long as the audience knows this, it becomes something even more compelling. The best is him with his ex-wife. That scene of them practicing with the piano player is funny. It’s a great companion to the recent TV show Fosse/Verdon. In the TV show, it’s about the couple and that adds some emotional depth to the material. In some ways, the movie is missing the emotional complicity which that hilarious scene between the exes has in spades. This movie goes inside into the man with the Angelique character. It’s both compelling and that I want more about his relationships. I love his time with his daughter. It’s a fascinating life and well-told one.